Looks like Apple had to give Siri a little reminder about company loyalty.
Siri is the Apple-branded personal assistant that lives on the iPhone 4S. She can tell you where to get the best Thai food in your area, organise your day and remind you about that dentist appointment you have. However, it seems Apple wasn't pleased to find out that she was telling people that Nokia's Lumia 900 was the best smartphone ever.
It was recently discovered that, when asked, Siri would tell users that the Lumia 900 was 'the best smartphone ever.' It's not surprising to hear Apple has seemingly reminded Siri who she's working for. CNet reports that when she's asked now, Siri responds with a humorous, "You're kidding, right?" or "The one you're holding."
Siri was originally naming the Lumia 900 (Nokia's flagship Windows Phone device) as 'the best phone ever' because of Wolfram Alpha. Apparently the computational search engine had the phone ranked at number one based on four online reviews. Because Siri often queries Wolfram Alpha for her answers to users questions (according to the Verge, her searches represent 25 percent of all Wolfram queries), she reported back to users that the Lumia 900 was the top dog in the smartphone world.
Interestingly, it seems Wolfram Alpha has also changed its mind about the best phone ever. The site now lists the HTC Trophy as number one, with the Lumia 900 falling to fourth place behind the Trophy, Apple's 64GB iPhone 4S and the 8GB iPhone 4. Who knows, perhaps it won't be long before the iPhone 4S really is number one on Wolfram Alpha and Siri won't have to dodge the question anymore.
Siri“吃里扒外”，苹果忙打补丁
当被问到“哪个是最好的智能手机时”，Siri竟然回答是Nokia的Lumia 900, 苹果马上纠正了这个“异常”。
看来苹果要给Siri一点警告了：你哪个单位的？
Siri是苹果iPhone 4S上的个人助手。她不仅能够帮你找到去附近泰国菜馆的路，能帮着安排你的日程，还能提醒你约见牙医。
不过最近有人发现，当被问及智能手机排行榜的时候，Siri会说Lumia 900 是“有史以来最棒的智能手机”。不难设想，苹果老板一定会提醒Siri：你丫究竟是给谁打工的呢？ 不过根据CNet报道，现在再问Siri同样的问题时，她将给你幽默回答“不是在开玩笑吧？”或者“就是你现在拿的这个”。
原来，Siri对Lumia 900(诺基亚的WP旗舰手机)是“最棒手机”的偏爱来自于沃尔夫拉姆·阿尔法（WolframAlpha）问答引擎。显然该引擎是基于4个线上评测把诺 基亚的手机排在了第一名。 由于Siri总是查询这一引擎来回答用户的问题（根据TheVerge网站的研究，Siri有25%的回答来自于沃尔夫拉姆的搜索结果），于是就自然告诉 用户Lumia 900是智能手机中的冠军了。
【注】WolframAlpha 是开发计算数学应用软件的沃尔夫勒姆研究公司开发出的新一代的搜索引擎，能根据问题直接给出答案的网站，于 5月15日晚7点(美国中部当地时间，北京时间5月16日上午8点)提前上线，用户在搜索框键入需要查询的问题后，该搜索引擎将直接向用户返回答案，而不 是返回一大堆网页链接。
有意思的是，沃尔夫拉姆·阿尔法引擎最近也更改了智能手机的排行，现在它的最佳智能手机冠军是HTC的Trophy,而原来的冠军Lumia 900已跌到第4名，排在苹果iPhone 4S 64GB 和 iPhone 4 8GB之后。 谁知道呢，没准没多久iPhone 4S就真的成了沃尔夫拉姆排行中的第一名了，于是当Siri在被问到“哪个是最好的智能手机”时就不用伤透脑筋。
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